GARDAÍ HAVE confirmed they have received more than 20 new complaints from men alleging they were indecently assaulted by the disgraced hospital consultant Michael Shine.
They have also appealed for anyone else who has concerns about the way in which they were treated by the former consultant surgeon to contact them.
Last November Mr Shine (77) was struck off the medical register after the fitness to practise committee of the Medical Council found him guilty of professional misconduct because he had made sexual advances to three male patients.
This week the Medical Council outlined the grounds on which they found him guilty.
This also included making indecent suggestions and/or behaving indecently to each of these patients as well as assaulting or indecently assaulting the patients and undertaking inappropriate and/or improper medical examinations and/or treatments.
For more than 30 years Mr Shine worked at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda as well as having an extensive private practice. All of the complaints made to gardaí in Drogheda allege the assaults took place either in the hospital or in his private rooms on Fair Street, Drogheda on dates from 1974 to the early 1990s.
Mr Shine was acquitted by a jury of indecent assaults on six other patients following a trial at Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court in 2003.
Yesterday gardaí in Drogheda appealed for anyone with complaints to contact the Garda station and “talk to us either formally or informally” on 041-9874200.